Culinary calendar for the week ahead: A farewell to Sheehan

The year might be starting off slow, but there are still plenty of culinary events to keep things cooking -- including your very last chance to have Westword restaurant critic Jason Sheehan sign a copy of Cooking Dirty.

Here's a taste of what's ahead:

Now through January 15:

Enter your homebrew in the Ska Brewing Snowdown Pro-Am Homebrew Competition, a preliminary for the 2010 Great American Beer Festival Pro/Am Category. Sign up by January 15 and get your brew to Ska no later than January 18. Find details at www.durangohomebrew.com.

Monday, January 4:

Cook Street School of Fine Cooking, 1937 Market Street, is hosting a Kitchen Basics class tonight. It's $69, and you'll need to register in advance at 303-308-9300 or www.cookstreet.com.

Wednesday, January 6:

Tonight is your last chance to have Jason Sheehan sign your copy of Cooking Dirty, at 7 p.m. at the Broadway Book Mall, 200 South Broadway; afterward, catch him at Sketch, 101 Broadway, for a bon voyage party. Call 303-744-2665.

Amber Taufen has been writing about people, places and things in Denver since 2005. Born and raised (mostly) in Colorado, she has covered the music, food, arts and cannabis beats for Westword. She works as an editor, writer, and production and process guru out of her home office in the foothills.